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2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

J. M. FENNERTY.

RAILWAY CHAIR.

Patented Deo. 14, 1886.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

RAILWAY CHAIR.

No. 354,117. Patented Dec. 14, 1886.

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JOHN M. 4FENNERTY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

RAILWAY-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,117, dated December 14, 1886.

Application filed March 20, 1886. Serial No. 195,980. (No model.)

others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to railway-rail joints or chairs, and is designed as an improvement upon the construction shown in Letters Patent No. 335,067, granted to me January 26, 1886.

The main object of the invention is to prevent or reduce to a minimum the vertical and lateral movement of the rail ends under a passing train, thus prolonging the life of rollingstock and reducing cost of repairs, and obviating the employment of bolts, as now used, thereby making a continuous rail. Minor objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists of novel features of construction and combinations, which will be fully described in the ensuing specification, and claimed in the clauses at the close thereof.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View illustrating railway-rails secured by my improved railway chair or rail joints. Fig. 2 is a similarview, looking at the other side. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the nut-locking plate. Fig. 4. is a similar view of the key or wedge which holds the removable member of the device. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail perspectives of the xed and removable member.

I/Vhere the same parts are shown in several gures of theI drawings they are correspondingly lettered.

The device illustrated embodies in a single structure a chair to receive the meeting or abutting ends of railway-rails and prevent the vertical movement of said ends with relation to each other, and prevent the lateral movement of said ends with relation to each other.

The rails A may be of ordinary shape, with a semicircular notch, a, cut in the web of the adjoining ends, as shown. The rail ends are seated upon a flat base, B, having at one end a solid rising abutment, C, terminating in-a long-plate, C', which extends on either side of base A and lits snugly against the web of the rails, filling the space between the head and flange thereof, as shown in Fig. l, thus acting as y a side support and brace. The lower edge of plate C is undercut on its inner face, as shown, to receive one side of the flange of the rail, and its upper edge is braced by ribs c, extending to near the outer end of abutment C. The outer ends of plate C' are preferably provided with depressions or seats c', to receive the head of a spike, which holds said outer' ends iirmly upon the flange ot' the rail. At the other end of the base B is an overhangingshaped lip or keeper, D, and between this keeper and plate C the base B is provided, on either side, with guide-flanges b, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. The other side or brace plate, E', which is substantially like plate C', is secured to or forms part of a removable abutment, E, which, when in use, is seated upon the base B and between the guide-flanges b thereof. The plate Eis forced tightly against the webs of the rail ends by means of a wedgekey, F, inserted between the keeper D, and secured by means of a screw-bolt, d, passing through the keeper and key F, and engaging a tapped vhole is base B.

The plates C E are each provided with a bolt-hole, c2 e, registering, when the parts are assembled, with the notches ct in the rail ends, and through these holes and notches passes a bolt, G, secured by a nut, g. The head of bolt G is of such size that one of its faces rests upon the upper surface of abutment E, and is thus prevented from turning, and to lock the nut g, I secure a metal strip, H, upon the abutment C, with one edge bearing firmly against the lower face of the nut, as shownin Fig. l. This strip H is bolted tightly to the abutment C, and is of a length to fit snugly between the ribs c, thereby providing against accidental displacement.

I prefer to cast the parts B b, C C c, and D all in one piece, as also the parts E E', as this insures greater rigidity and strength of the structure; but they may be otherwise constructed without departing from the principles of my invention. l

' I claim- 1. As a new article ofmanu facture, a chair and web-plates for a railway-rail joint, the same IOO consisting of a flxedvpart embodying a base, an abutment terminating in a Web-p1ate, and

' a keeper, and a removable part embodying an abutment terminating in aWeb-plate, said webf 3. In a railway-rail joint, the combination, substantially as described, of the rail ends, the

chair provided upon one end with a fixed webplate and at the other with a keeper, the removable block or abutment carrying a Webplate and the key, and the nut-lock H.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in zo presence of two Witnesses.

VJOHN M. FENNERTY.

. Witnesses:

J. HENRY KAISER, HARRY D. AMES. 

